This pretty piece of stationery features a picture of the Temple of Osiris, which we know because the same picture was used on a Union Pacific menu card in 1929. The picture is a colorized black-and-white photo and doesn’t really match the colors found in Bryce Canyon, but it is not too far off. Note the delicate yellow oval around the picture reminiscent of the yellow UP streamliners would wear in the late 1930s.

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Though the menu was from 1929, UP continued to use this menu through about 1934. After that, it switched to menu cards that were the same size but with no picture on the opposite side from the menu itself. For reasons I’ll reveal in a few days, I would date this stationery to around 1935, but it could be from a couple of years before or after that.

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Matching envelopes didn’t have the picture but did have a UP logo on the front and the name of the lodge on the back. The glue has discolored the paper a bit but it still shows what lengths UP went to in order to please patrons of its southern Utah/Grand Canyon lodges, the only hotels it owned.